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The following online journal entries are from November 2001. |
MONDAY. 5:28 PM. I have been super, super busy and caught up in all of the writing I have to do. But, the whole NaNoWriMo thing is going well. My novel is chugging along nicely and I am currently ahead of schedule. It's a good thing. Of course, I have to write anything today and my lead will diminish if I produce nothing. I'm not going to reveal anything about my novel just yet. I think once I get a bit more of it done, I'll post it on my site. I'm also gearing up to get my graduate school applications done. I need to write my statement of purpose. Bleh. I have to boil down all of my thoughts, feelings, wants, hopes, and expectations of school, my life, and my choice of program in five hundred words or less. Fun. I'm not even going to talk about the GRE's coming up in less than a month. Otherwise, life has been pretty much been the same as of late. I have a few things rattling around in my "in" box. I'll get to them later. Right now, I'm trying to enjoy simple things like this hilarious animation called "kan guo lai" -- which means "look over here." It's in Mandarin, but it's very funny even if you don't understand the words. The rough translation is basically: a lonely, dorky boy wants to get the attention of a girl, he wants them to turn and pay him some mind because he's not a bad guy, he doesn't understand girls because he never knows what they're thinking or what they want, he looks high and low but he can't seem to find anyone, but he thinks every girl has some unique and special quality. In the end, he gives up and goes home. Sounds about like my own love life (except for the looking for a girl part).
WEDNESDAY. 9:31 PM. I'm not in particularly good spirits right now. I'm just tired, I think. I'm experiencing a little eye fatigue from being on the computer nearly 24/7. So, I think I'm going to go to bed early tonight or just sit in the dark and think. It's been one of those days where I feel lonelier than usual. I don't know what else to call the feeling. I feel nostalgic. I miss things. I feel not understood. And I'm tired of struggling for simple things like wanting some peace and quiet at home. I watched Buffy: The Musical again today. It was yesterday's big episode. It makes me smile. I need more things that make me smile.
FRIDAY. 5:31 PM. I am really tired today. I think I'm succumbing to this whole seasonally affected thing. It gets dark so early and it's pitch black by like 6 PM. Then all I want to do is sleep. But another work week is done. I don't really have any plans for tonight. I think it might be good to just stay in and rest. |
SUNDAY. 10:26 AM. Best wishes to Wendy Joy Gross and Nathan Seney-Himler today! They're getting married today and I have the distinguished pleasure of attending their ceremony. Nathan and Wendy (and their roommate Collin) were one of the first lasting friends I've made since moving to San Francisco. I met them my first year here through my friend Carol from Maryland when she breezed through San Francisco on her way to Seattle. Carol and Nathan were friends back at the University of Maryland at College Park. In fact, Nathan studied at and graduated from the School of Architecture (which I began in but left in my junior year) at UMCP. Small world, eh? You can read all about Wendy and Nathan at www.theknot.com. I saw Carol last night. She and her girlfriend Christine flew down from Seattle this weekend for Nathan's wedding. Dustin and I met them at Kitaro, a sushi restaurant in the Richmond district (Geary and 22nd Avenue), for dinner. Then we took the #38 bus down Geary to go to POW for a few drinks. It was a lot of fun. Both Carol and Christine were trying to convince me to move to Seattle. (A possibility, I suppose, though I haven't looked at school options there.) The wedding is at six o'clock this evening at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. I've never been to an evening wedding. The ceremony and reception are at the hall. It should be interesting and fun (open bar and all). I have to figure out what I'm going to wear. I'm going to the wedding with Dustin -- who I roped into being my date for the evening. Until then, I need to work on my NaNoWriMo novel and keep on top of my word count. By the end of today, I should break 20,000 words. Excellent.
WEDNESDAY. 1:32 PM. As of last night, my novel officially broke 25,000 words! It's pretty exciting to be halfway done with the month. Though, my book is turning out to be a longer story than just 50,000 words. So, I will hopefully make the requisite 50K but I will have more writing to do afterwards to finish the book. I have just been trying to keep up with the work and get my act together. I am determined to get some of my grad school application stuff done this week. Though my statement of purpose is woefully incomplete. I hate the damned thing. Everyone says its the most ridiculous thing ever but yet it still exists. (I guess you can say that about a lot of things in our world.) Nathan and Wendy's wedding was really nice. Short, simple, very heartfelt, and in a gorgeous space. The food was really good. The music was ecclectic. I particularly loved Bjork as Wendy's entrance music. Very, very nice. Both of them look ecstatic. And I'm sure they're having a grand time in the Virgin Islands. Buffy last night was too traumatic -- I really hate (love) when shows just throw the universe and the characters that live there into a blender and hit chop. More about it on my message board. |
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